Want to know “the right way” to make pancakes? John Locke’s got you covered (Bodleian MS Locke c. 25, f. 85).

Hugely looking forward to these performances in April!

The call for papers is still open to submit your abstracts for the London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought 2024. See below 👇…yofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-paper…

Prof. Susan James will deliver the 2024 Rubinstein Lecture in Intellectual History on 15 March "What’s really wrong with fake news? A Spinozist perspective" Register to attend: eventbrite.co.uk/e/whats-really…

JOB: Lectureship in the History of the Modern Political Thought of Africa, the Americas, or Asia, at King's College London. More information: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084725-le…

One cannot understand British empire without understanding its ideological justification. Inversely, one cannot comprehend much of British philosophy without realising how interwoven it is with empire

It's all too real! Greatly looking forward to launching a new opus with a stellar cast of performers and commentators at University of Notre Dame next week. Come for the Mozart, stay for the Wagner, Smyth, Britten, John Adams, Verdi, Menotti, Weinberg and Jonathan Dove!

Chartbook 279: Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map. The latest chartbook newsletter just dropped. Check it out and sign up here: open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

📣 Apply for the 2024-25 Quentin Skinner Lectureship You will spend one term as a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH and are invited to give a lecture on a subject of your choosing in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 ⏳ Deadline 24 June 2024 bit.ly/3js4P7Z

Warmest thanks to Eileen Margaret Hunt and ND Arts & Letters for so generously hosting my Niemeyer Lectures on opera and international thought, and to the commentators, singers and accompanist who made them such a uniquely memorable event.

Attention recent PhDs and advanced doctoral candidates in the social sciences! Apply to our Academy Scholars Program for a two-year, in-residence postdoctoral fellowship—with stipend. Application deadline 9/20/24. Spread the word! ow.ly/pjcy50SKmxq

David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social HarvardSocialStudies Harvard University Brown University Just read the thoughtful and moving article on Anya’s passing and her impact on her many students in The Harvard Crimson — perfectly captures what made her so special and how much she will be missed. thecrimson.com/article/2024/8…

Thank you, Noah. Anya's loss has been a huge blow for all of us in Social Studies

A few production hiccups along the way (first go!), but HEI published a roundtable on Ted McCormick's Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 2022). Introduced by Robin Mills tandfonline.com/eprint/TW26N6U…

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Snow Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period prior to 1800. nacbs.org/news/jon-ben-s…

'Catherine Packham leads readers to ask what the “feminist” dimension of Wollstonecraft’s critique of commercial modernity means today.' Eileen M. Hunt (Eileen Margaret Hunt) on the exclusion of women through male inheritance and rank the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

Huge thanks to Harvard Social Studies and David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social for inviting me to give the Narayan Lecture this week. We talked about climate change, long term and short term perspectives, text mining and LLMs, democracy and how information can support it. We covered miles and the

The thanks are all ours, Jo!!